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...John Elway, 26, a Stanford baseball and football phenom prized above Miami's Dan Marino in the great quarterback draft of 1983, gathered the Broncos in their own end zone with less than six minutes and more than 98 yds. to go. Just to tie, they needed a touchdown. "We've got these guys right where we want them," drawled Denver Guard Keith Bishop, a Texan, but everyone else was looking at Elway. "We have a long way to go, so let's get going," he said. "Do whatever it takes, and something good will happen...
...Orange Bowl, 25-10, it was starting Quarterback John Shaffer's most horrendous game and first defeat since seventh grade. A memory of the aftermath was how bravely he stood up to it. Though this performance probably reinforced the pros' small opinion of Shaffer, there was one touchdown drive in the middle of the game that suggested why he is 66-1 since junior high. "When it's really hanging out there," Paterno said, "Shaffer can do it." The quarterback said, "I feel total ecstasy...
Except for the first three minutes, when San Francisco's Jerry Rice fumbled away a sure touchdown, the Giants were totally dominant, winning their 15th game in 17 starts and 10th straight to move into the NFC title game here against Washington next Sunday...
...Giants rolled to a 28-3 half-time lead with two touchdowns in the final 50 seconds, then scored three more in the third quarter. In the second half, San Francisco was forced to go with quarterback Jeff Kemp instead of regular QB Joe Montana. Montana left with a concussion when Jim Burt ran into him just before the half. On the play, Lawrence Taylor picked off a pass and returned it 34 yards for a touchdown...
...press conference some three hours after touchdown, Rutan, a former Air Force lieutenant colonel, said he felt wobbly, but declared elatedly, "Life is an opportunity. It's only limited by what you can dream about." Said Yeager, Rutan's companion for the past six years: "We got rest but not a lot of sleep." The flight, she added, "was a lot more difficult than we ever imagined...